Subject: Re: White-headed WP
Date: Nov 3 18:36:18 1995
From: Scott Ray - scray at wolfenet.com


Dean Drugge wrote:

>How many sightings (pairs) have been recorded in the area and the state?

Dean,

Okanogan (Okanagan if you're Canadian) County is near the northern edge of
the range of the White-headed Woodpeckers. They are quite rare in the BC
Okanagan side of the boundary. WHWO are rarely easy to find in WA but are
decidedly more common farther south.

I expect they are quite widely distributed (albeit rare) in the ponderosa
pine belt of north central Washington, but here are the only areas I know of
where they've been observed.


There are your birds in the lower Methow drainage(Black Canyon Creek?).

There are a few in the upper Aeneas Valley along Cape Labelle Road
(Delorme Atlas pg. 115, CD-8). I don't know the exact location of
these
birds.

Birds have been observed near Winthrop a few times.

At least one pair nested in 1995 in Ferry County near the south end
of Silver
Creek Road (Delorme pg 102, D-6).

Let's nail down this species distribution in NC Washington or the entire
state for that matter. Where have you'll found them? Any records for
southeast WA?

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